Treading light footed on the grass And avoiding wild prickly thorns We were all young adolescent children On life's chess board we were pawns Running over the bridge Which spanned a reed filled river We watched the ripples shimmer As a cool wind made us shiver From the bridge we saw the city centre And the Cathedral at its core The football ground glimmered to the east But we didn't care for the score Houses fed off the grassy banks It was the estate we all called ours The dreaded rent office showed its face In front of smoke filled cooling towers A gang of unruly ruffians Shouted from the bank below We'd already made a head start though And besides they were much to slow The landslide gave us such fun Cause the eighties seemed full of gloom A Tory regime tried to hurt us But the flowing river made us grow and bloom